ANT208H5 Lecture 2: ANT208-Lecture-2
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Ant208 theory and method in the study of popular culture. Holism: (examine culture as a whole, and not on parts) Performance theory: ant"s study human discourse and interactions by giving them a means for considering key cultural concepts and critical issues. Why the hostility: early portrayal and focus on tribal societies, prejudice on looked down upon things (strip club, new directions in anthropological theory"s, holistic perspectives: interrelations btw the aspects of cultural and society. Domains of culture: material, recognizable artifacts that are manmade (clothes, symbols, the material can change, form changes it meaning (ie; wood of the crucifix, behavioral, repeated events have meaning. Not all behavioral is cultural because it can be simply responding to stimuli: cognitive, the psychological ideas of culture can suggests someone"s mental process by mental culture, the schema: a general idea of what a concept is.
